NBA FINALS GAME 2 RATINGS HISTORICALLY COLLAPSE; ANOTHER ALL-TIME LOW

Outkick ^ | 10/4/20 bout 2 hours ago | by BOBBY BURACK a

[Grampa Dave]

How low can they go?

[Lurkinanloomin]

I hope they go broke.

[moovova]

“A ship doesn’t sink for one reason, but undoubtedly, politics sit atop the historical tank.”

This ship can...and did...sink for one reason.

[Fai Mao]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3890476/posts

[BeauBo]

[odawg]

Looks like all the NBA has left is a “me” party. They can just give each other congratulatory slaps on the butt. Or do players still do that?

[WASCWatch]

The pool of money for player salaries is based on a percentage of league revenue. That number is going to take a huge hit. Same for the NFL. Any player who decided to wait until the end of this season to negotiate a new contract rather than sign before COVID-19 is going to get a lesson in reality. I can see it costing them 50% of what they would have gotten if they signed earlier.

[aquila48]

When will the players start feeling the consequences of this in their pocketbooks?

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I’m not using my time and energy to make a substantive comment.

[Lysandru]

So...with this evidence, I am also supposed to believe that Joe Bite Me is leading the President by 14 points?

There is a correlation here.

[SmokingJoe]

. The embarrassing average is down — wait for it — 68% from last year’s Game 2, which featured a team in Canada.

OUCH!
So even with last year's finals featuring a Canadian team (the Raptors), and with lockdowns keeping millions of people at home, the NBA ratings are still down a massive 68% this year?
By the time LeBron is done, you wouldn't even piss on the NBA.

[ASOC]

SO? Who cares?

[cherry]

if biden wins, we'll see a bailout of professional sports....mark my words...at least they'll agitate for it....

let them suck eggs...their ungracious piggly little selves...

[Veggie Todd]

330 million Americans. 4.5 million watched. According to my abacus, that computes to 1.4%.

[Alberta's Child]

The player salaries are more likely to be impacted by the collapse of arena revenues than these awful TV ratings. The current national TV contract for the NBA runs through the 2024-25 season. The NBA is getting paid even if 0 people are watching these games.

[SmokingJoe]

The TV contracts are baked in for a few years, but they are suffering massive loses from their closed basketball courts and no live paying audiences, where they make a huge part of their money from.
Inevitability they are going to take big pay cuts. Things will turn ugly fast.
Some smart entrepreneur can start a new none woke basketball league, where the flag and national anthem are respected

[stinkerpot65]

Scum.

[Ebony]

But the tragic thing is, and it is tragic, due to his stance, is that he is very rich. He in the end won’t care

[SmokingJoe]

Is Biden leading by 14 points?
Not a chance.
The last guy that won by 14 points or higher was Ronald Reagan in 1984. That was 36 years ago
And you know what? He won 49 states in that year. That's what it took to win by 14 points or more.
Is Biden even close to winning 49 states? There is a better chance of the sun not rising again, than that happening.